In the organizer's words:

Mark Twain - Greetings from the afterlife

Mark Twain died in 1910. Since then, his soul had been traveling in restless curiosity through the galaxies of the universe in search of paradise. He must have stood before the gates of heaven, before which hosts of earthly souls gather in order to get a place on a paradisiacal cloud and revel in blissful equanimity in heaven. But the prospect of perpetual boredom made Mark Twain move on. His restlessness drove him beyond our solar system, where he was registered as Captain Stormfield in a galaxy unknown to us. But even there, in the furthest distance, he could not find a place worth staying. So his spirit decided to reunite with Ulrich Tukur and travel through the cities by land, just like in the old days, and tell people about all his adventures in the universe, on the Mississippi or the Neckar, about Satan's experiences on earth and about curious incidents with thespian thugs. And he talks about the America of his childhood and painful losses in his own family. On the way, he was able to buy a melodious English travel harmonium at auction, on which Ulrich Tukur accompanies Mark Twain's biting humor and profound observations with ragtime and American salon music. An eventful evening in keeping with the motto:

"Let us be thankful that there are fools, without them the rest would have no success - and old fools are the worst."

Ulrich Tukur plays Mark Twain (and harmonium, piano)

Text version and direction: Wolfgang Stockmann

Price information:

St. Pauli Theater ticket hotline: 040 / 4711 0 666, st-pauli-theater.de and at all known advance booking offices